I recently got an Asus EeePC 900 laptop. I tried the default Xandros Linux for a short while and promptly overwrite it with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. The installation was straightforward, but the customizations required were convoluted. When I find the time, I will post about the various hacks that need to be applied.
However, this post is about moving pidgin data. Having a tiny laptop is great, but I wanted to move my pidgin data, i.e. settings, accounts, and contacts, from my desktop PC to the laptop. It turned out that moving pidgin data around is truly simple: copy the sub-directory ~/.purple from one PC to another and you are done.
But what if you want to move the data to and fro? I am sure you can accomplish this with rsync somewhere, but I opted for a simple sneaker net via a usb thumbdrive. First, I format the drive to ext3, then set the label so it will always mount to the same directory:
sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 mobisett
where the /dev/sdb1 is the drive, and mobisett is the mount directory. The next time I plug the drive into any Ubuntu PC, it will mount to /media/mobisett.
Then, copying pidgin data is by one cp command. To store the data to the drive:
cp -r ~/.purple /media/mobisett/pidgin
And to restore the data from the drive:
cp -r /media/mobisett/pidgin ~/.purple
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Thanks. This was very helpful. My computer crashed, and I had to get the Pidgin account data from encapsulated data from my hard drive. This made it easy to do.
Again, thanks.
Posted 23 Sep 2010 at 1:47 pm ¶Glad to be of assistance.
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